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Microsoft on Monday revealed that it worked together with industry partners to shut down the infrastructure used by TrickBot operators and block efforts to revive the botnet. The Washington Post reported last week that the U.S. Cyber Command too attempted to hack TrickBot's C&C servers, in an attempt to take the botnet down to prevent attacks seeking to disrupt the U.S. presidential elections.
"We disrupted Trickbot through a court order we obtained as well as technical action we executed in partnership with telecommunications providers around the world. We have now cut off key infrastructure so those operating Trickbot will no longer be able to initiate new infections or activate ransomware already dropped into computer systems," shared Tom Burt, corporate VP, Customer Security and Trust, Microsoft. "In recent times, Trickbot has been implicated in targeted ransomware attacks, where credentials stolen by the malware were used by the Ryuk ransomware operators to compromise victims' networks and encrypt all accessible computers. This assessment has been confirmed by Europol, which recently noted that 'the relationship between Emotet , Ryuk and Trickbot is considered one of the most notable in the cybercrime world'," Symantec researchers noted.
A team of vulnerability spotters have netted themselves a six-figure payout from Apple after discovering dozens security holes in the Cupertino giant's computer systems, some of which could have been exploited to steal iOS source code, and more. Curry said the group decided to target Apple's public-facing networks in July, a few weeks after seeing the story of Bhavuk Jain, who earned $100,000 for finding a bug in Apple's customer sign-in system.
Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, increased 34.4% year over year in the second quarter of 2020, according to IDC. Investments in traditional, non-cloud, IT infrastructure declined 8.7% year over year in 2Q20. These growth rates show the market response to major adjustments in business, educational, and societal activities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the role IT infrastructure plays in these adjustments. Spending on public cloud IT infrastructure increased 47.8% year over year in 2Q20, reaching $14.1 billion and exceeding the level of spend on non-cloud IT infrastructure for the first time.
A Zerto survey reveals a major disconnect in data protection strategies across enterprises with 75% believing container-based applications can be backed up the same way as individual applications are backed up. "The research findings underline the need for organizations to adopt container-native data protection technologies that are integrated into the application deployment lifecycle from the inception, so applications are born protected and remain that way. This equates to less work for developers and consistency in protection of containerized applications, which will need to adhere to business requirements."
VMware and NVIDIA announced a broad partnership to deliver both an end-to-end enterprise platform for AI and a new architecture for data center, cloud and edge that uses NVIDIA DPUs to support existing and next-generation applications. Through this collaboration, the rich set of AI software available on the NVIDIA NGC hub will be integrated into VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Tanzu.
Oracle announced that Rescale's cloud HPC simulation platform is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Rescale cloud HPC platform, built on a powerful high-performance computing infrastructure, seamlessly matches software applications with the best cloud or on-premises architecture to run complex data processing and simulations.
Success in the digital economy requires organizations to move beyond a traditional, cost-sensitive view of infrastructure and adopt a broader recognition that a responsive, scalable, and resilient cloud-centric infrastructure will help drive revenue while aligning technology adoption and IT operational governance with positive business outcomes. The transition to a cloud-centric digital infrastructure, which is already underway within many organizations, depends upon commitment to a digital strategy accompanied by a new set of key performance indicators focused on resource optimization, consistent resilience, and continual enhancement.
Workers - and the tech and security teams that support them - had to "Improvise" just to keep organisations operating at all, meaning security was, for some perhaps, an afterthought. Our friends at cloud native security experts ExtraHop have identified ten key threats any security pro should be aware of, and the techniques to tackle them, and they'd love to share them with you.
The GAIA-X Initiative announced that it is one step closer to its goal of a trustworthy, sovereign digital infrastructure for Europe, with the official signing of incorporation papers for GAIA-X AISBL, a non-profit association that will take the project to the next level. "We are deeply motivated to meet the challenges of the European digital economy," said Servane Augier, COO at 3DS OUTSCALE. "Through GAIA-X, we are building, all together, a sovereign and reliable digital infrastructure and an ecosystem for innovation in Europe. In this way, we will strengthen the digital sovereignty of businesses, research and education, governments and society as a whole."